The Broken Bellwether
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- MethuselahMouse
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In recent elections attention has been drawn back to Missouri's tendency to mirror national trends/values. Examples include the 2006 election of democrat senator Claire McCaskill during a critical switch in party control of the Senate and house, and the approval of stem cell research.
Missouri also voted for the two succesful primary candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.
However, now that 100 percent of Missouri's precincts have been counted, it appears that Missouri selected the losing candidate in the 2008 presidential election, John McCain, by an incredibly narrow margin of 5853, with 2879301 votes cast in total.
This breaks the fifty year streak of the bellwether state, and only seems to confirm that Missouri could be facing a slight loss in demographic relevance.
This also seems congruous alongside the trend of this past election in breaking former trends and re-defining traditional state roles in national elections.
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KD0BQM
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It's 'cause, as my mechanic, a "good" Republican, and deacon of the Baptist Church says, "he's [Obama] a communist, a terrorist, a raghead, a baby killer, a gun hater and a ni**er. Anyone who votes for him aughta be shot!"
Lotsa them kind here in Missouri.
- 3 years ago
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KD0BQM
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MethuselahMouse
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KD0BQM:
Yeah, unfortunately.
A really stupid kid called out one of my devastatingly clever friends for supporting Obama.
He called him an abortionist baby killer, and my friend asked him if that was the only reason he hated Obama.
A small exchange later led to this: "Obama will hurt the economy!"
"Why?"
"BECAUSE HE'S A QUEER!" - 3 years ago
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MethuselahMouse
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allengator
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What I don't understand is why several of the fairly major races in Missouri (Governer, Attorney General) went democratic while the state voted for a republican candidate...it just makes no sense.
Oh well, Nevada or Ohio, one of the two will be the new bellwether.
- 3 years ago
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allengator
